Amusement device



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6 r j g Patented Apr. 16, 1940 warren stares PATENT OFFlCE AMUSEMENT DEVICE Samuel M. Radzyner, Bronx, N. Y. Application June 29, 1939, Serial No. 291,888

Claims.

The invention relates to improvements in amusement devices and has for its primary object the provision of an improved amusement device which is of simple construction and amusing and 5 instructive in use.

Other objects will appear hereinafter.

The invention consists in the combinations and arrangements of parts hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention will be best understood by reference to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and in which Fig. 1 is a perspective view of an amusement device embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 an enlarged top plan view of the same;

Fig. 3 a section taken substantially on line 33 of Fig. 2;

Fig. 4 a section taken substantially on line 4-4 of Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 a View of the plan from. which the housing for the device is made.

The embodiment of the invention illustrated in the drawing comprises a housing made of stiff paper or cardboard having an inclined top l0 provided with a central sight opening l l as shown. A mirror i2 is arranged against the inner face of the rear wall E3 of the housing and may be viewed through an opening it provided in a flap 15 formed integrally with the rear wall l3 and folded downwardly against its inner face as shown. Another flap it extending forwardly from the lower edge of the flap I5 is positioned on top of the normal bottom ll of the housing and is provided on its upper face with an amusement design it in the form. of a baseball diamond as indicated. A front Wall l8.is provided in the strip between the top and bottom walls as shown, and the top Wall is provided with a securing flap it which is adhesively secured to the flap l5 at its top as best shown in Fig. 3. The walls l0, l8 and Id are provided along adjacent edges with the flaps 2B, 2! and 22 adapted and arranged to be folded inwardly as indicated to constitute one side wall of the housing, the flap 2| being provided with a securing flap 23 which is insertable in the space 24 between the rear wall 53 and the flap it as best indicated in Fig. 4, thereby completing the housing and leaving the other side fully open at 25. p 1

In use the housing is held in the left hand in position so that the amusement design 16 may be viewed through the mirror l2. Then a stylus 26, indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 1, is held in the right hand with its point inserted'through the open side of the housing and resting in the pitchers box of the baseball diamond design. The object of the amusement is for the user to then move the point of the stylus from the pitchers box to the home plate and thence around the 5 base lines back to the home plate-without permitting the point of the stylus to travel outside of the base lines and viewing the baseball diamond only through the mirror l2 in which, of course, all parts will appear backwards or reverse. 10 The successful completion of the amusement in this Way will require a great coordination of muscles and concentration of thought and thereby furnishes an interesting and instructive amusement.

While I have illustrated and described the preferred form of construction, this is capable of variation without departing from the spirit of the invention. I therefore do. not wish to be limited to the precise details disclosed, but desire to avail myself of such variations and modifications as fall within the scope of the appended claims.

I claim:

1. An amusement device comprising a mirror; a design consisting of the outlines of a tortuous path for a stylus or the like; and means permitting view of said design by reflection in said mirror while preventing a direct view thereof.

2. An amusement device comprising a member having a sight opening; a design consisting of the outlines of a tortuous path for a stylus or the like; and a mirror so positioned relatively'to said design and sight opening as to permit view of the image of said design in said mirror.

3. The amusement device specified in claim 2 in which the design is a baseball diamond.

i. The amusement device specified in claim 2 in which the member is a housing having a sight opening in its top, the design on its bottom. and the mirror on a side wall of the housing, one side of the housing being open to afford access to said design. l

5. An amusement device comprising a foldable housing made up of a strip of material folded and secured to form the top, bottom, front and rear walls of a housing; flaps on the adjacent edges of said walls for closing that side of the housing; a mirror on the rear wall of said housing; and a design consisting of the outlines of a tortuous path for a stylus or the like on the bottom of said housing, there being a sight opening in the top of said housing through which the image of said game design may be viewed in said mirror.

SAMUEL M. RADZYNER. 

